4 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1978
Risk factors in asbestos exposure
…the author stated, lung cancer risk was raised about four-fold above general-population non-smokers in a non-smoker, and ten- to twenty-fold above people with the same smoking habit in a heavy smoker…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1978
Awkward medicolegal problems in asbestos-induced disease. Problems in law
…to mesothelioma, asbestos bodies in the lungs of ordinary people, mesothelioma without a known cause in the general population, and the combined effect of smoking in lung cancer all made causation hard to decide. He noted…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Dysphagia due to mesothelioma infiltrating the oesophagus: palliative treatment
…found a tumour completely blocking it. A guide wire could not be passed through the stricture, so a tube was placed in the oesophagus under general anaesthetic via a gastrotomy. Afterwards she improved quickly, went home…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Asbestos exposure and asbestosis
…asbestos particles building up in the lung, as clear. But the author objected to the article using the general term 'asbestos exposure' for non-cancerous pleural disease, since that disease, asbestosis and the cancers linked to…